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Sri Lanka seeks harmony between elephants and humansLunugamwehera, Sri Lanka (AFP) May 17, 2010 In the early hours of a hot dry day, four orphaned elephants begin a bumpy truck ride back to the jungles of southern Sri Lanka where they had been rescued from near certain death. The four baby jumbos - now aged five and six - are ready to leave the Elephant Transit Home where they have been treated and cared for since they were less than a year old. The state-run home is refuge for dozens of baby elephants who are separated from their herds, fall into wells or ditches or are shot at by angry ... read more |
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Shanghai (AFP) May 5, 2010The restive regions of Tibet and Xinjiang have for years been thorns in the side of China's ruling Communist Party, but visitors to the World Expo in Shanghai would never know it. The two regions - rocked in recent years by deadly unrest - are presented in the giant China pavilion at the just-opened Expo as culturally rich and forward-looking areas steeped in tradition, where ethnic harmon ... more  
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) May 06, 2010The Indian Navy on Thursday commissioned the INS Shivalik, the first of three new indigenous stealth frigates, the Defense Ministry said. The 6,200-ton, 142.5 by 16.9 meter frigate has low radar visibility. Special aerodynamics, as well as the equipment and materials used in building the warship makes it very difficult to monitor its movements. It has a range of 5,000 nautical miles ... more  
Bonn, Germany (UPI) May 5, 2010 Leaked tapes have revealed how European and U.S. leaders clashed with counterparts from India and China during the dramatic final hours of the failed U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen. German news magazine Der Spiegel published transcripts of leaked audiotapes that reveal how U.S. President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy faced off with ... more |
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ISRO May Launch Climate Satellite With FranceNew Delhi, May 3 (PTI) The Indian Space Research Organisation is mulling launching of 'megha tropiques' satellite to study climate in collaboration with France, the government told Rajya Sabha today. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh while replying to a question said that the satellite will provide data on atmospheric humidity, radiation budget and amount of precipitation to help in climate study. "India and France are jointly developing the scientific payloads of 'megha tropiques'," he said. The Megha-Trop ... read more |
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